Wagmatcook | Nick: agillis

Wagmatcook | A Nifty Night

Yes, I know, just last Thursday I was talking about Celtic Colours and said that we weren't going this year. Well, just like the weather around here, wait five minutes and it'll change. Friday morning, I got an email from my brother in Halifax asking if we were going since the rest of the family were headed there.

I got up before the crack of dawn Saturday morning to pack the car and make breakfast and lunch for us. I woke Mariah up at 6 am, expecting to just pour her into the car where she could continue to sleep, but she insisted on taking a shower first. By 6:45 am, we were on the road.

Nous avons conduit directement vers Margaree. Il faisait beau and traffic was moving (except heading into Antigonish where they were fixing the cracks in the asphalt and had traffic down to one lane - we had to wait twenty minutes in the lineup).

We arrived in Margaree just in time for late lunch. Dans l'après-midi, mon frère - Mark, sa femme - Laurie, Mariah et moi avons conduit à Inverness et visité l'Inverness County Centre for the Arts. There were some beautiful pieces of art from local artists, as well as international artists inpired by the local environment and culture.

Ensuite, Troy MacGillivray, fiddler extraordinaire, wowed the crowd with instrumental tunes on the fiddle and the keyboard.

Finalement, Shooglenifty (un groupe de l'Écosse) a joué une unique mélange de la musique traditionnelle écossaise et beaucoup d'autres influences de la musique mondiale. The lead musician, Angus Grant, was hilarious. If he ever gave up playing the fiddle, he could easily make it as a comedian.